Application and Admission
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The following documents are required for your complete application:
- Online form within the online application- please list in the menu item professional experience all your previous professional stations of the last five years (as long as they cover a period of at least 6 months - see paragraph "Evaluation of professional experience in the admission procedure")
- Motivation cover letter
- Curriculum vitae in tabular format: Documentation of your professional experience during the last five years of your life in tabular format - including information on areas of responsibility in the position in question, as well as the percentage of employment
- Certificates (high school diploma, bachelor's/master's/diploma examination certificate or diploma certificate, transcript of records-performance overview)
- Documents of all work experience cited in the curriculum vitae in tabular format (merged into one pdf file)
- Passport or identity card
- Current portrait photo
Please check our application period here
As an applicant from a third country (non-EU or non-EEA), the March 1 is the application deadline for you. The reason for this is that it sometimes takes longer until international documents can be checked or lead times are necessary for the application of a visa or a residence permit.
Admission procedure
Previous professional experience is taken into account in the admission procedure for this Master's degree programme.
The following are recognised as ‘professional experience’
- Relevant studies in social work (Bachelor's or diploma degree),
- Relevant professional activities with a qualification of at least six months,
- Professional activities within a field of social work without qualification of at least six months and
- Professional activities of at least six months, periods spent bringing up children or caring for relatives.
The last five years of life are taken into account. The professional activity must have lasted at least six months. Professional experience dating back more than five years will not be taken into account and must not be stated in the online application.
Document your professional experience directly in the online application and create a tabular CV covering the last five years of professional experience, in which you list the exact details of the field of work of the respective position, period and scope of activity (percentage of employment). All activities that you list in your CV must be verified by uploading them to the online application, e.g. in the form of references or certificates. Only proven professional experience will be awarded points.
Not recognized as "professional experience":
- shorter periods of employment (of less than six consecutive months),
- other studies,
- compulsory internships that were completed as part of school-based training or in basic studies.